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Jack Cook
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According to Paul Conger it was really fun touching wingtips :shock:
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Actually touching? Wow....

I don't think you'd catch any airforce boys trying that these days.

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Is that 30,000 or 3,000 ? Or is there such a thing as a pressurized Jug? I don't see any O2 face mask on the pilot.

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Is that 30,000 or 3,000 ? Or is there such a thing as a pressurized Corsair? I don't see any O2 face mask on the pilot.


I think they're P-47s...

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Bill,
30,000' O2 mask on and it's a P-47C

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Punisher05 wrote:
I think they're P-47s...
Anything with one round engine is a Corsair to Bill! :wink:
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Am I missing something?

His face is clearly visable to me. I don't see a mask.
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His face is clearly visable to me. I don't see a mask

look at the top picture not the bottom one :idea: :twisted:

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I have this pic.

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In the top photo Jug or not, I don't see an O2 mask. It would cover both his nose and mouth and it looks like his nose is visible. I also don't see a helmet which normally the mask would connect to. It looks like you can see his hairline where the helmet would normally cover up.

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anyone can touch wing tips, it takes a real man to hook up to a wing tip

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Fouga's from our aerobatic team used to play tag on long boring cross-country flight. I have video where you see and hear the tiptanks hitting each other. Seems the crewchiefs were a bit p*ssed with all the dents they made in the tiptanks :D

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Hi Mike,
Good pic but that's not Paul just his a/c. Question is who so I'll
have dig out my 56th FG history book.

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I had a feeling it wasn't him in that picture. Here are the other pictures that came with that first one.

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Some well known guys in this one.
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Matt Gunsch wrote:
anyone can touch wing tips, it takes a real man to hook up to a wing tip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Boei ... TomTom.jpg


"Bud" Anderson was one of those pilots. He has some amazing stories about it.

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